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Hacettepe University Department of Information Management
BBY 220 Principles of Information Retrieval (Spring 2007) Yaşar Tonta
Time and
place: Tuesdays
Instructor: Yaşar Tonta (e-mail: tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr; tel: 297 82 04)
Course web site: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/spring2007/bby220/
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Goals: To attain a deeper understanding of the problem of access to recorded knowledge. To become familiar with some of the basic design principles of information retrieval (IR) systems and the standard methods of testing them. To explore some future possibilities for attaining intellectual access.
Course Is Intended
For: Future
information system designers and evaluators. Future
administrators of libraries and information centers responsible for IR system
decisions. To a lesser extent, system users. Also the intellectually curious.
Outputs:
Students completing BBY200 will have a better understanding of the “information
retrieval” (IR) problem. The
course will enable students to question the design principles of IR systems
including traditional online catalogs, search engines, and multimedia IR
systems. They will be able to evaluate
the performance of IR systems on the basis of performance criteria such as precision
and recall, and appreciate the role of metadata schemes in performance tests.
Requirements: Attend class meetings, participate in discussions. Read assigned articles. Do occasional homework exercises. Explore a special topic of your own choice, summarize it in written report by end of semester. Two midterm exams.
Attendance: You must attend all the lectures. If you are unable to participate two consecutive lectures or a total of three lectures within the semester, you must produce a formal document explaining the cause(s) of your absence.
Grades: Grades for this course will be
based on completion of the assignments, midterms, and participation in class
discussions. Academic or scholastic dishonesty, such as plagiarism,
cheating, or academic fraud, (including false signatures in the sign-up sheets)
will not be tolerated and will incur the most severe penalties, including
failure for the course. All individual
work is assumed to be done individually and responsibly. If there is any concern about behavior that
may be academically dishonest, please consult the instructor. Students are also encouraged to refer to the
Higher Education Council’s “By-Law of the Student Code of
Conduct” (Yükseköğretim Kurumları Öğrenci Disiplin Yönetmeliği), especially clause 9/m, which states
that students attempting to cheat or plagiarize shall be expelled from school
for one or two academic semesters.
Yaşar Tonta
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